Dore O
Figures of Absence
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Original format 16mm
Year 1968-1976
Language(s) German
Artist(s) Dore O
Subtitles French, English
Running time 168 min
Films
ALASKA (1968) 18'
LAWALE (1969) 30'
KALDALON (1970-71) 44'
BLONDE BARBAREI (1972) 25'
KASKARA (1974) 21'
FROZEN FLASHES (1976) 30'
Description
"Located in 'the antechamber of language, and even of consciousness,' her recently restored films occupy an in-between state that is not easy to interpret or approach verbally. Their associative flow of images and sounds acts as a deliberation of their sensuality. In a dreamlike density and a strange suspension of time, O.'s films induce a sensation of heightened perception, between hypnosis and clairvoyance."
— Masha Matzk
"Contemporary critics have often noted that Dore O.'s work resembled American avant-garde cinema of the time. And that is precisely the whole point. Her films do not simply derive from Maya Deren or Stan Brakhage, for example. By recalling these works, they rather provoke an interior disturbance. O. employs a method that alludes to the styles of American avant-garde lyrical cinema, while speaking from the position of a West German subject. The result is a moving superimposition, which evokes at once connotations of a cultural past, the present of the film being made, and our own era—a positioning that reveals as much as it conceals."
— Vera Dika
"Dore O. has become a classic. Without us noticing, her work has safely traversed various currents: the era of cooperative grouping, women's film, structuralists and grammarians, teachers of new ways of seeing... It is time to proclaim loud and clear that Dore O.'s work is unique in German avant-garde cinema."
— Dietrich Kuhlbrodt